Real & Rooted
Real & Rooted is a sanctuary for honest, heart‑level conversations where we explore grief, resilience, and the quiet strength that emerges when we tell the truth about our lives. It’s a grounded space for reflection, healing, and community — a place to feel seen, supported, and anchored as we grow toward a more wholehearted way of living.
Real & Rooted
Latest Episodes
Grief & The Hidden Loneliness of Sleeping Beside Someone You Love
What Grief Does to a MarriageLori explores how devastating loss can change a marriage from the inside out, especially when both people are grieving the same person in different ways. This episode is a candid, compassionate look at distan...
Life After Loss: Grief, Marriage, Parenthood, and Finding Your Shoreline
Lori opens Season 2 with a deeply personal reflection on what it means to move from surviving to living after loss. She talks through how grief reshapes marriage, parenting, identity, and faith, using the shoreline as the central metaphor for h...
What Survival Reveals
Lori reflects on a hard personal season and the quote that opened the episode: that the worst times of life reveal the true colors of people around us, and of ourselves. She unpacks grief, career disruption, and the quiet ways survival mode can...
Prevention: Mental Health Contributors & How to Access Help
Military mental health, suicide warning signs, and how to get helpLori Kendall opens with a direct, personal conversation about military mental health and why the hardest topics need to be spoken about plainly. She focuses on what warnin...
Awareness to Prevention: Rally the Troops
Awareness alone does not save lives - prevention starts with the conversations we are willing to have before a crisis ever arrives. Lori delivers a deeply personal and urgent episode about moving from suicide awareness to real-world...